Support for dress-forms.



W. E. HUME. SUPPORT FOR DRESS FORMS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE-19, 191a.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER E. HUME, OF RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACQUES POLLAK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUPPORT FOR DRESS-FORMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1914.

Application filed June 19, 1913. Serial No. 774,608.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VVALTER E. HUME, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rutherford, Bergen county, New Jersey, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Supports for Dress-Forms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in dress form supports, and the object of my invention is to produce a very simple and convenient device which will support a dress form in such a way that the form can be very easily raised and lowered, and will automatically lock itself when the gripping mechanism for raising and lowering is released.

In carrying out my invention the locking device is arranged below or very nearly below a skirt which may be on the form, so that it can be easily reached. The device is provided with a fixed post mounted on a suitable portable pedestal, and a tube slides over the post and is attached to the body of the form. The locking device is arranged at the bottom of the tube, and is of such a nature that by gripping the handle and an adjacent hand grip, the device can be re leased and the tube and form raised or lowered as desired; while by releasing the hand grip the latter will automatically assume a position to lock the outer tube, and consequently the form in the position at which it is left.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views. 1

Figure l is a side elevation of a dress form showing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on a very much enlarged scale of the means for raising, lowering and locking the device, and Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The dress form 10 can be of any usual kind, and it may or may not be provided with a skirt 11, which is indicated by dotted lines. The form is carried as is usual, on a portable pedestal 12 from which rises a rigid post or rod 13. Fitting over the upper part of this post and sliding freely thereon, is a tube 14, the upper part of which is secured as shown at 15 to the bottom of the form 10.

The tube 14: at its lower end merges in the housing 16, with which it can connect in any suitable way. I have shown, however, a convenient and preferred means of making this connection. As illustrated, the housing 16 which is preferably cylindrical, connects with the top cap 17, which hasra flange 18 overlapping the housing, by means of screw threads as shown at 19, the threaded lower extension of the cap 17 entering a corresponding threaded portion of the housing 16. The upper part of the cap 17 is also threaded as shown at20 so as to connect with the reducing collar 21, the upper part of which as shown at 22 fits snugly against the tube 1 1, while the body portion of the collar receives a. bushing 23 which fits snugly between the collar and the tube 14:.

'At its lower end the housing 16 is screwed as shown at 24 to the bottom cap 25, and this has a threaded extension 26 which receives the threaded collar 28 on the inner end of the handle 27'which projects laterally from the rod 13 immediately below the housing 16. The collar 28 is held in place by a nut 29, although obviously the handle can be secured to the lower part of the housing 16 in any convenient way.

Projecting from within the housing in a line generally parallel with the handle 27, and spaced apart from the handle so that it and the handle 27 can be conveniently gripped, is a hand grip 30 which is formed into a ring 31 which straddles the rod 13, and the inner end of the grip is pivoted as shown at 32, within the housing 16. This grip works vertically in a slot 33 of the housing, and is normally pressed upward by a spring Bet which is coiled around the rod 13 between the ring 31 and the bottom cap 25.

It will be seen that by grasping the grip 30 and handle 27 so that the grip is held substantially horizontal against the tension of the spring 34:, the housing 16, tube 14, and form 10 may be easily raised or' lowered, and that by releasing the grip the spring 34 forces the grip upward in the slot 33 so that the ring 31 comes into frictional engagement with the rod 13, one side of the ring being higher than the other so that the ring binds, and the tube 14 and the form which it carries, are locked in the position at which said parts may be when the grip is released. It will be noticed that the housing 16 and tube 14 may be turned around freely on the rod 13, that the looking device is released by simply grasping the parts and 27, and that the device is automatically locked by releasing the hand grip 30.

It will be seen, therefore, that I provide a very efiicient, cheap, and simple dress form support, which permits the easy adjustment of the form both vertically and by turning it as desired. It will also be seen that the housing 16 is virtually part of the tube 1%, but for structural reasons it is simpler to form the locking attachments in the housing, and then apply to the tube, than to attempt to locate the locking mechanism directly in the tube itself.

I claim 1 A dress form support comprising a supporting post, a tube sliding on and projecting above the post and adapted to carry a form at its upper end, a housing at the lower end of the tube, a handle extending laterally from and rigidly connecting with the housing, and a vertically movable hand grip projecting from the housing and straddling the aforesaid post, said grip being pivotally supported so as to frictionally engage the said post.

2.21 dress form support comprising a post, a tube sliding vertically on and projecting above the post and adapted to carry a form at its upper end, a housing secured to the lower end of the tube, said housing being arranged to slide and turn on the aforesaid post, a fixed laterally extending handle on the housing, and a spring pressed hand grip pivoted in and projecting from the housing in a direction generally parallel with the handle, said grip being arranged to frictionally engage the post when released to the action of the aforesaid spring. 3. A dress form support comprising a pedestal, a post rising from the pedestal,

tube sliding vertically on and projecting above the post and adapted to carry a form at its upper end, a slotted housing secured -to the lower end of the tube, a cap detachably secured to the bottom of the housing, a handle on the cap, and a spring pressed hand grip pivoted in the housing and projecting through the slot thereof so that the grip and handle can be grasped together, said hand grip being arranged to frictionally engage the aforesaid post.

i. A dress form support comprising a pedestal, a post rising from the pedestal, a tube sliding and'turning on the post, said tube extending above the post and being adapted to carry a dress form at its upper end, a handle at the lower end of the tube, and a spring pressed pivoted hand grip projecting fronrthe tube parallel with the aforesaid handle, said grip being adapted to frictionally engage the post when released to the action of the aforesaid spring.

\VALTER E. HUME.

Witnesses:

JACQUES POLLAK, ARTHUR G. DANNELL.

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